Graduate Students

PhD Students:

Abdolmaleki, Kara <abdolmal@ualberta.ca>
Comparative Literature
Title of Dissertation: “The Return of the Repressed”: Revolt against Post-coup Modernization of Iran in Literature and Film

Abedinifard, Mostafa <abedinifard@ualberta.ca>
Comparative Literature
Title of Dissertation: Ridicule and Gender Hegemony: Gender Humour and its Relation to Gender Order: The Cases of the Anglo-American and Iranian Folk and Pop Culture Humour

Abdulkadir, Abubakar S. <aabdulka@ualberta.ca>
History & Classics
Title of Dissertation: ‘The Land of Poets’: Mauritania, history and poetic scholarship (18th-19th centuries)

Aliakbari, Rasoul <rasoul@ualberta.ca>
Comparative Literature
Title of Dissertation: The Thousand and One Nights and the Formation of Modern Nation-states: A Trans-national Study

Khaira, Arshdeep <arshdeep@ualberta.ca>
Ethnomusicology
Title of Dissertation: Can The Punjabi Sufi Music Revival Lead to Cultural Interdependence in the Divided Region and the Promotion of Peace Along the International Border?

Modarres, Mansoureh <modarres@ualberta.ca>
Comparative Literature
Title of Dissertation: Re-imagining Female Subjectivity through Narratives: A Transnational Study of Contemporary Women’s Writings in Persian and English

Charradi, Sahar <charradi@ualberta.ca>
English and Film Studies
Title of Research Project: The R word: Reforms for LGBTQ rights in the Middle East and the Life of Intersectionality

Dumanian, Armen <dumanian@ualberta.ca>
Political Science
Title of Research Project: Militarism and Leadership in the Middle East: A Comparative Constitutional Study of Egypt and Turkey

Erfani, Rezvaneh <rezvaneh.erfani@gmail.com>
Sociology and Political Science
Title of Research Project: A Post Colonial Critique of the Global Environmental Justice Discourse

Harder, Ardythe <alharder@ualberta.ca>
Political Science
Title of Research Project: Role of Narrative in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Maseehuddin, Farooq
Educational Policy Studies
Title of Research Project: The Structural Tensions of North American Muslim Communities

Meissner, Marcus <mmeissne@ualberta.ca>
History & Classics
Title of Research Project: From the Edge of (the Ottoman) Empire: revisiting Rifa’at ‘Ali Abou AI-Haj and Formation of the Modern State

Valerio, Nakita <nvalerio@ualberta.ca>
Religious Studies/History & Classics
Title of Research Project: Al-Yehud Through the Shoah: Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching the Holocaust and Jewishness Among Contemporary Moroccan Muslims

Zaamout, Noureddin <zaamout@ualberta.ca>
Political Science
Title of Research Project: The Syrian Winter: From Revolution to Civil War